2011 grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

SSHRC Standard Research Grants, 2011

  • Karen Collins, Drama & Speech Communication. Exploring interactivity and immersion with multi-platform games
  • Altay Coskun, Classical Studies.  New history of ancient Galatia
  • Doreen Fraser,  Philosophy. A philosophical investigationof issues raised by particle physics      
  • Kimie Hara, East Asian Studies Program (REN). The San Francisco System and cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific: Part 2 (1951-1980)      
  • Eric Helleiner, Political Science. The new politics of global derivatives regulation after the 2007-08 financial crisis              
  • Kathryn Hochstetler, Political Science. Charting the future of climate change: energy and development in Brazil and South Africa  
  • Carin Holroyd, Political Science. Environmental technology and national innovation in Japan      
  • Tim Kenyon, Philosophy. Testimony, assertion and justification              
  • Greta Kroeker, History. The era of Catholic innovation: 1480-1546          
  • Alice Kuzniar, Germanic & Slavic Studies. German Romanticism as the vital life force of homeopathy
  • Victoria Lamont,  English Language & Literature. Popular westerns: A women's history 1880-1940      
  • Theresa Libby,  School of Accounting & Finance. Fairness, moral sensitivity and incentive contracting
  • Patricia Marino, Philosophy. Moral reasoning in a pluralistic world          
  • Aimee Morrison,  English Language & Literature. Deciphering digital life writing           
  • Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Drama & Speech Communication. Simulated environment for theatre (SET)   
  • Winfried Siemerling,  English Language & Literature: African Canadian writing, literary history and the presence of the past
  • Mikal Skuterud,  Economics. Gone fishing! Absenteeism, shirking and the weather
  • Alex Statiev, History. Adventure tourism in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet states            
  • Hongping Tan, School of Accounting & Finance. Determinants of financial analyst following and its value indications  
  • John Turri, Philosophy. New perspectives on Speech Acts         
  • Tony Wirjanto, School of Accounting & Finance. Examining the effects of increased volatility uncertainty of firms       

SSHRC Insight Development Grants, 2011

  • Steven Bednarski, History (SJU). A poisoned past: A reflexive microhistory of Margarita de Portu, a fourteenth-century poisoner
  • Jay Dolmage, English Language & Literature. A white man's country: The rhetorical construction of race and disability through Canadian eugenics and immigration restriction
  • John Turri, Philosophy. Norms of assertion

SSHRC Research/Creation in the Fine Arts Grant, 2011

  • Marcel O’Gorman, English Language & Literature. Pharmakon: Investigating technological impacts through digital art and applied media theory

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2011

  • Guy Poirier, French Studies. Textes missionnaires dans l'espace francophone

SSHRC Partnership Grant LOI, 2011

  • Neil Randall, English Language & Literature. IMMERSe: Immersion & multi-modal experience research syndicate

SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops & Conferences in Canada Grant, 2011

  • Shelley Hulan, English Language & Literature. LITERATURE, Rhetoric, and Values (conference)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSERC Discovery Grants, 2011

  • Ori Friedman, Psychology. Children's pretense: representing fictional worlds and relating them to reality           
  • Jonathan Fugelsang, Psychology. Factors influencing judgments of causal relations
  • Katherine White,  Psychology. Specificity and flexibility in early word recognition

Other awards

Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA), 2011

  • Veronica Kitchen, Political Science.  Integrated counter-terrorism institutions in comparative perspective